Implicit, and not very subtly so, is the narrative that a pregnant woman should prostrate herself at the feet of the Fates because of the possibility that she may give birth to A Great Man.
And let us not mince words: It is no coincidence that we are meant to “imagine” the snuffing out of a man’s potential via abortion, forestalling as it does our “imagining” the protagonist’s potential come to a screeching, shuddering halt in the shadow of an unwanted pregnancy that cannot be terminated.
Imagine that.
